Abstract

The term Anthropocene refers to the impact of human activities on the earth that interfere with climate, land and biosphere that sustain plant, animal and human life at unprecedented scales of intensity that set a course towards species extinction. The Industrial Revolution and the aftermath of this over two centuries is cited as a turning point in levels of pollution. The term Capitolocene refers to the interconnection between the ecological state and the capitalist condition, and alludes to a time in which economic productivity is reliant on the extraction of coal, oil and minerals and the ensuing environmental degradation of terrain, rivers and atmospheres. Across time human, nature, territory, labour and politics inter-connect yet in different ways. In this section we are interested in how feminists have taken up and developed the concept Anthropocene.